Ferdinand Schureman Schenck

Ferdinand Schureman Schenck (11 February 1790-16 May 1860) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NJ) from 1833 to 1837, succeeding Thomas H. Hughes and preceding Charles C. Stratton.

Biography
Ferdinand Schureman Schenck was born in Millstone, New Jersey in 1790, and he became a lawyer in Franklin Township in Somerset County. He served in the General Assembly from 1829 to 1831, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837, as a trustee of Rutgers College from 1841 to 1861 and as a judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals from 1845 to 1857. He launched a failed bid for the State Senate in 1856 as a Republican, and he practiced medicine in Camden until his death in 1860.